"Why are things as they are and not otherwise?"

-- Johannes Kepler

#Science Quotes

“There are more ways of skinning a cat than rubbing its fur the wrong way.”
“God is not against us for our sins. God is for us against our sins.”
“We started on the pole but by Lap 150 we were ninth or 10th and we were struggling. The car was sliding around a lot, but I did not get upset. I just said, 'Let's just keep working hard.' Last year, I would have been so upset about getting passed by those cars I would have been overly aggressive and would have worn our tires out. You can't do that in a 500-mile race if you want to be strong at the end.”
“There is a sort of exotic preposterousness about a lot of elections, the way arguments are made even cruder.”
“We must all be profoundly grateful for the magnificent achievements of our forbearers in this century. Yet perhaps in the daily press of events, in the clash of controversy, we don't see our own time for what it truly is - a new dawn for America.”
“If I go three days without vocalizing, the voice is gone.”
“The self-confidence of the warrior is not the self-confidence of the average man. The average man seeks certainty in the eyes of the onlooker and calls that self-confidence. The warrior seeks impeccability in his own eyes and calls that humbleness. The average man is hooked to his fellow men, while the warrior is hooked only to infinity.”

Source : Carlos Castaneda (2013). “Tales of Power”, p.7, Simon and Schuster
“When I record, it feels like I'm in a bubble. There's nothing else in my head right then. It's just that song, and I'm trying to really sound like what the song is about.”

Source : "A Dancing Queen Extends Her Reign" by Dave Itzkoff, www.nytimes.com. May 5, 2013.

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